The ExtraCare Charitable Trust has chosen Orchard Information Systems to support its OpenAccounts finance software. Paul Todman, financial planning accountant, Extra Care Charitable Trust, said, “Orchard proved its credibility by helping us with a sales ledger problem which took less than a week for us to solve with Orchard support; this had been outstanding for…
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Housing Management
Cathcart & District Housing signs with Designer Software
Cathcart and District Housing is now live with Designer Software’s web-based HomeMaster software. Christine Leitch CEO, Cathcart and District Housing, said, “The process of changing from our old Windows-based, on-premise system has been very smooth and the commitment from the project team at Designer Software has been exemplary. Our staff find the system very intuitive…
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Moving to ‘compliance plus’ with IT
The social housing sector is experiencing a myriad complex challenges that need to be promptly overcome. We have a growing population combined with an affordable housing shortage, national economic uncertainty and increased political focus on us from the housing Green Paper and the recent Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act, to name but a few,…
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Bringing IT all together – An interview with Castleton Technology
Castleton Technology is one of the fastest-growing technology providers in the social housing sector and is arguably one of the largest. Yet, its rapid growth has not been without problems, and despite an impressive track record for innovation, the company remains widely misunderstood. Housing Technology puts Castleton CEO’s Dean Dickinson under the spotlight and discovers…
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IT as catalyst or enabler?
The ubiquity and pervasiveness of IT in business today presents a dichotomy when it comes to an organisation’s strategic planning; like the chicken and the egg, should IT dictate your business plan or should it be a vice versa? Having been a finance director at five housing providers, three of which involved me acting as…
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Magna Housing’s revamps IT with Aareon
Magna Housing has chosen a comprehensive housing technology system from Aareon. The new package of software comprises the Aareon QL housing management system, Aareon 1st Touch mobile workforce technology and a new tenant portal. Magna Housing expects to go live with the first phase of the combined Aareon QL system during the middle of 2019,…
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